I’m implementating the dissemination barrier (above) in C for my advanced OS course and I’m not quite sure I understand the pseudo code itself. In particular, I don’t get the point of the parity flag …. what’s the point of it? What problem does it solve? Isn’t the localsense variable sufficient to detect whether or not the threads (or processes) synchronized? I’m guessing that the parity flag helps with multiple invocations of the barrier but that’s just a hunch.
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